World, as it is in this, and upon this account I thought the Reasons
of this War very Just, and that the Claim of Right to the Succession
of the Ebronian Crown, was undoubtedly in the Man with the Lip, and
his Heirs, and so far the War was most Just, and the Design
reasonable.

And thus far my Lunar Companion agreed with me, and had they gone on
so, says he, they had my good Wishes, and my Judgment had been
Witness to my Pretences, that they were in the right.

But in the prosecution of this War, says he, they went on to one of
the most Impolitick, Ridiculous, Dishonest, and Inconsistent Actions,
that ever any Nation in the Moon was guilty of; the Fact was thus.

Having agreed among themselves that the Ebronian Crown should not be
possest by the Gallunarian King's Grandson, they in the next Place
began to consider who should have it.

The Man with the Lip had the Title, but he had a great Government of
his own, Powerful, Happy and Remote, being as is noted, the Lord of
the great Eagle, and he told them he could not pretend to come to
Ebronia to be a King there; his eldest Son truly was not only
declar'd Heir apparent to his Father, but had another Lunarian
Kingdom of his own still more remote than that, and he would not quit
all this for the Crown of Ebronia, so it was concerted by all the
Confederated Parties, that the second Son of this Prince, the Man
with the Lip, should be declar'd King, and here lay the Injustice of
all the Case.

I confess at my first examining this Matter, I did not see far into